Policy and Legislation
Tenet Healthcare has adopted a new stockholder rights plan - a so-called "poison pill" - in an attempt to thwart a hostile takeover by Community Health Systems.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's Annual Conference and Exhibition, which attracts 30,000 attendees each year, will return to Chicago in 2015 and 2019, President and CEO H. Stephen Lieber announced Monday at a news conference at McCormick Place.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule for hospital inpatient value-based purchasing that is intended to reward hospitals for meeting and exceeding quality and safety measures.
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) announced Thursday that the committee will hold hearings to examine how the health reform law benefits Americans.
The New York Times headline was "Health Spending Rose in '09, but at Low Rate," but it could just as appropriately have been "Health Spending in '09 Took Biggest Jump Ever in GDP Share."
Oklahoma and Kentucky have become the first states under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program to make incentive payments to providers for the adoption of certified electronic health records.
Blue Shield of California has proposed rate hikes for 200,000 individual policy holders that could see some members' premiums jump as much as 59 percent on March 1.
Seven hospitals in Florida, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama have agreed to pay more than $6.3 million to settle allegations that submitted false claims to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.
The 112th Congress met for the first time on Wednesday, with Republicans making their first order of business a repeal of the healthcare reform law.
An Arizona patient awaiting a liver transplant who was removed from the waiting list as a result of state Medicaid budget cuts has died - the second such person to die since the cuts were announced on Oct. 1, 2010.